German Research Seminar Programme 2005-2006

Semester one

17 November 2005

"The Impact of Holocaust Refugees on Cultural Life in Great Britain"
Professor J M Ritchie MA, DrPhil, DLitt
Grosses Verdienstkreuz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland,
Chairman of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, London

8 December 2005

"Masculinity, Sport and Nature in German Magazine Advertising"
Martha Wörsching MA
Loughborough University

Semester 2

16 February 2006

Sex, Lies and Videotapes: telling it how it wasn't in Monika Maron's Stille Zeile sechs, Brussig's Helden wie wir, and Goodbye Lenin
Professor Elizabeth Boa (University of Nottingham):

16 March 2006

'Pour la liberte': Anti-Nazi Writers exiled in France in the 1930s
Professor Ian Wallace (University of Bath)

27 April 2006

'Wende ohne Ende': The unending story of German Unification
Dr Peter Barker (University of Reading)

This talk will, amongst other things, address the itenerary poster exhibition on "Wir sind ein Volk", which will be on show in our department during the last week in April and the first week in May.